It's done. It took less than a minute, all told. I combed and brushed my hair smooth. jonbaker sat in a chair behind me. I gave him the new barber scissors and he cut three inches - the wispy part - off my hair, straight across. I can still touch the ends when I reach in back. Future trims won't need to be so drastic, and maybe I'll spend some time dusting off ends.

BTW, goal is not 68" (I'm only 62 inches high myself!). I'm thinking more like 36" *tops*.

I don't think so - ladymondegreen is keeping her hair somewhere between her knees and her hips these days. I think it was just past hip-length for Contata, for example. At least, I don't think it was below her knees. But, yes, those times it's been ankle length, it's taller than I am, given that Merav is taller than I am. :)

I don't want it that long. It would be a pain to cover (as opposed to waist-length, which is very easy for me.)

My great-grandmother, I think it was, had hair that was down to her ankles. The part by her head was gray, but when she braided it all and wrapped it around her head, the brown part covered all the gray. Then she got sick, and the doctor insisted that her hair was too much work for her, so she cut it...to her knees. :^) I agree, it would be a pain--I found my hair kind of a pain when it was waist-length.